Larry Wall wrote:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:03:09PM +0200, Thomas Sandlaß wrote:
: BTW, will bidirectionality be supported? Does it make sense to reflect
: it in the StrPos type such that $pos_start < $pos_end means a non-empty
: left to right string, $pos_start > $pos_end is a non-empty right to
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:03:09PM +0200, Thomas Sandlaß wrote:
: Larry Wall wrote:
: >On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 02:37:24PM -0600, Rod Adams wrote:
: >: How can you have a level independent position?
: >
: >By not confusing positions with numbers. They're just pointers into
: >a particular string.
:
Larry Wall wrote:
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 02:37:24PM -0600, Rod Adams wrote:
: How can you have a level independent position?
By not confusing positions with numbers. They're just pointers into
a particular string.
I'm not the Unicode guru but my understanding is that all composition
sequences are
Larry Wall wrote:
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 02:37:24PM -0600, Rod Adams wrote:
: Please convince me your view works in practice. I'm not seeing it work
: well when I attempt to define the relevent parts of S29. But I might
: just be dense on this.
Well, let's work through an example.
multi meth
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 02:37:24PM -0600, Rod Adams wrote:
: Larry Wall wrote:
:
: >%+ and %- are gone. $0, $1, $2, etc. are all objects that know
: >where they .start and .end. (Mind you, those methods return magical
: >positions that are Unicode level independent.)
: >
: How can you have a le
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 12:48 -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 09:59:10AM -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> Well, there is a process object, but it actually exists inside the
> operating system. It's a little silly to force people to name their
> own process all the time. I think we
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 09:59:10AM -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote:
: On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 00:27 -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
:
: > $$ is now $*PID. ($$foo is now unambuous.)
: >
: > $0 is gone in favor of $*PROGRAM_NAME or some such.
:
: You know, Java did one thing in this respect that I liked, and m
Larry Wall wrote:
%+ and %- are gone. $0, $1, $2, etc. are all objects that know
where they .start and .end. (Mind you, those methods return magical
positions that are Unicode level independent.)
How can you have a level independent position?
The matching itself happens at a specified level. (No
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 03:37:41AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
: > $! will be a legal variable name. $/ is going away,
:
: By which you mean that $/ is turning into a special $0.
I'd say that $0 is a specialization of $/, but yes, basically, they
both represent the current match result, albeit di
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 00:27 -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> $$ is now $*PID. ($$foo is now unambuous.)
>
> $0 is gone in favor of $*PROGRAM_NAME or some such.
You know, Java did one thing in this respect that I liked, and managed
to do it in a way that I couldn't stand. The idea of program as object
Larry Wall creates Sish28:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 02:11:29PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
> : On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:03:45PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> : > Hmm, well, if it got that far. Given strict being on by default,
> : > this particular example should probably just die on the fact that
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 02:11:29PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
: On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:03:45PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
: > Hmm, well, if it got that far. Given strict being on by default,
: > this particular example should probably just die on the fact that $"
: > isn't declared, since there
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